Billy Wilder Quotes
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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We need a national focus on increasing the sustainable growth rate of our economy.
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Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.